Carmagnole

(3 syl.). A red Republican song and dance in the first French
revolution; so called from Carmagnola, in Piedmont, the great nest of
the Savoyards, noted for street music and dancing. The refrain of
“Madame Veto,” the Carmagnole song, is “Dansons la Carmagnole- vive
le son du canon!” The word was subsequently applied to other
revolutionary songs, such as Ça ira the Marseillaise, the
Chant du Depart. Besides the songs, the word is applied to the
dress worn by the Jacobins, consisting of a blouse, red cap, and
tri-coloured girdlle; to the wearer of this dress or any violent
revolutionist; to the speeches in favour of the execution of Louis XVI,
called by M Barrière des Carmagnoles; and, lastly, to the dance
performed by the mob round the guillotine, or down the streets of
Paris.